All The Reading She Had Done Had

An Autobiography Is A Book A Person Writes About His Own Life And It Is Usually Full Of All Sorts Of Boring Details.

The Prime Function Of The Children's Book Writer Is To Write A Book That Is So Absorbing, Exciting, Funny, Fast And Beautiful That The Child Will Fall In Love With It. And That First Love Affair Between The Young Child And The Young Book Will Lead Hopefully To Other Loves For Other Books And When That Happens The Battle Is Probably Won. The Child Will Have Found A Crock Of Gold. He Will Also Have Gained Something That Will Help To Carry Him Most Marvelously Through The Tangles Of His Later Years. Roald Dahl

So Matilda’s Strong Young Mind Continued To Grow, Nurtured By The Voices Of All Those Authors Who Had Sent Their Books Out Into The World Like Ships On The Sea. These Books Gave Matilda A Hopeful And Comforting Message: You Are Not Alone.

If I Were A Headmaster, I Would Get Rid Of The History Teacher And Get A Chocolate Teacher Instead And My Pupils Would Study A Subject That Affected All Of Them.

I Regard Each Sentence As A Little Wheel... Now And Again I Try To Put A Really Big One Next To A Very Small One In Such A Way That The Big One, Turning Slowly, Will Make The Small One Spin So Fast That It Hums. Very Tricky, That.